Deploying and using Stable Diffusion XL 1.0

This post details the deployment and usage of Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 on the Baseten platform. It outlines the hardware requirements (A100 GPU) and expected inference times (8-12 seconds per image). It provides instructions for manual deployment using Truss, including cloning the repository, pushing the model, and invoking predictions with example prompts. It also introduces the Stable Diffusion Refiner model and its `use_refiner` parameter for improved detail generation.